Sunday 26 July 2015

Lifeboat (1944 Alfred Hitchcock)

Talullah Bankhead, John Hodiak, Walter Slezak, Hume Cronyn, Canada Lee, William Bendix, Mary Anderson, Henry Hull, Heather Angel.

Written by John Steinbeck and adapted by Jo Swerling. Music Hugo Friedhofer, ph. Glen MacWilliams, editor Dorothy Spencer.

Marvellous experiment - you forget we're in a studio. Murder shot from behind powerful (all hands). Great writing. Like the way she drapes herself over Hodiak - and the quiet romance that's taking place elsewhere.

Afterthought 28/9/15. This is the forerunner of Rear Window - a microcosm of individual people in one place, and all their individual stories, with a murderer in the centre.

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